What our customer's say!"Not User Friendly", I received Video Studio 5 with my Firewire controller. I am extremely disappointed in this program. It is not user friendly in any way. There are tips and step by step instructions, but they are unclear and not precise. I spent almost an hour trying to insert a transition between 2 frames. The directions give 2 methods of performing this action. The first method- clicking the selected transition and dragging it doesn't work at all. You can drag it everywhere on the screen EXCEPT in between two frames. The second method is to click on a button that does not exist in the effects mode. If I leave the effects mode, the button is there, but then I can't very well add any effects.
After fussing with this program for over an hour, I switched to Windows Media Movie Maker and had my short little clip completed and exported to the internet in less than 20 minutes.
Don't waste your time or money on Ulead Video Studio 5!
"Totally *un*intuitive interface", Tried to use the LE version which came with a Firewire card - after an hour I gave up in frustration. ...the user interface is not at all intuitive. I found myself having to constantly refer to the documentation to figure out simple tasks like capturing video from my camcorder or opening a file. Not reccomended.
"Difficult to use", I received Ulead Video Studio Version 5.0 with my 1394 adapter card. I find it very difficult to use.
As a user of Windows XP, I could only get it to run for users designated as PC Administrator. Limited Users could not run the software.
I did not find it to be intuitive to use even though each menu item across the top provides an illustrative picture and sequence of steps.
It appears on the surface to be easy to use however I had problems with editing clips and music. It appears it has many features and options. I spent 2 hours trying to edit a 30 second video clip and gave up with a headache. I had difficulty trying to preview minor changes (e.g. adding a title). The software would go through the Rendering step each time which would take about a minute or two.
"Worst Interface Ever = 0 stars", This program has one of the worst user interfaces ever. The team at Ulead definitely skipped the software developement process that tests average people (people that didn't directly write-code the program) using thier program.
The interface is their own design. Missing is the HELP button! No standard buttons are featured. The program has no help, rather it pops up everytime you do something and you have to fumble around for a G circle thing button where you turn help off, otherwise it pops up every time you do something.
Editing out commercials in this program is annoying. You cannot enter in a frame number manually or a numerical time. Instead you have to use touchy slider that goes either too far too fast to not far enough. There is no precision. Worst, while exporting if you have a bad frame, it quits. There is no way I have found to kill the bad frame because of the lack of precision.
I have a degree in computers and I find the interface useless. I can't figure it out. NO PROGRAM SHOULD BE THIS HARD TO USE!
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"Atrocious Interface", I've only had the program a few days but I believe I am qualified to give an "out of the box experience" report. Ulead decided to ignore 10 years of Windows interface standardization and created the least intuitive product I have used in 15 years of computing.
For ex: The normal drop down menu bar at the top of the screen is missing. Preferences are changed by clicking on a button marked "G"(?). You open files by clicking a round button with a star on it. It's like getting into a car and finding the gas pedal is shaped like a door knob and is located on the dash board, and the steering wheel is on the roof. You can get used to all the differences but none of them make the program easier to use. It's just an arrogant disregard for convention.
Despite the fact that the product is advertised as capable of capturing analog video, the documentation and menu choices make it clear that the primary market is DV. Tech support told me that I'd have to capture my analog video elswhere and then bring the file into the software to edit, however doing so makes it impossible to automatically cut the video into clips (apparently the only AVI I can create uses a compression format that is incompatible with this software, although it works just fine in Movie Maker). The tech rep turned out to be wrong. I can capture directly but still have to cut the clips manually.
There's got to be better video edit software than this.
